Organization

Conductor

Charles Barber

Stage director

Rachel Peake

Dramaturge

Singer

Tenor

Spencer Britten

Saihin

Translator

Paul Yee

Mezzo-soprano

Yenny Yeeun Lee

Hoisan Singer

Pianist

Roger Parton

Soprano

Vania Chan

Wenli

Derek Kwan

Eugene

Erica Iris Huang

Bass

Matthew Li

Xon Pon

Emma Parkinson

Anna

Mary Chun

Desdemona Chiang

City Opera Vancouver

English

Chinatown

Vancouver

Canada

Vancouver Playhouse

Public

Approved

The creators and performers of "CHINATOWN" reveal the stories behind the story of this unique, important and moving new opera. We hear from:

Alice Ping Yee Ho, Composer
Dr. Charles Barber, Artistic Director of City Opera Vancouver
Madeliene Thien, Librettist 
Vania Chan, Soprano - Wenli
Derek Kwan, Tenor - Eugene
Paul Yee, Co-writer
Erica Iris Huang, Mezzo Soprano - Hoisan Singer
Mary Chun, Conductor
Debi Wong, Stage Director
Matthew Li, Bass - Xon Pon
Roger Parton, Pianist

The stories of "Chinatown" - interviews with the creators

Our new opera is a story of family and neighbourhood, racism and resistance, history and tomorrow. In two acts and two hours it examines six characters, two families, and a chorus of male ghosts, from the building of the CPR through to our own times. It deals with violence and despair, the Head Tax, the Exclusion Act, paper sons, and paper promise.

Chinatown by Yee Ho, From (2022/2022), Directed by Rachel Peake, Desdemona Chiang,, Conductor Charles Barber, Mary Chun, Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, Canada

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